# Is it just me, or is this "walking down the aisle at eleven" thing weird? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2014, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153 "2014-04-02T08:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153/41 "2014-04-05T00:38:34Z")
Well put, and I agree with you on all points, **Cinnamon**. This is some bullshit for multiple reasons. The girls is only 11, too young to know if she’s going to be the type who will want her fancy traditional wedding and be comforted by the memory of her dad walking her down the aisle in some big production of a weird fake wedding when she was a kid. And the photographer, I assume, doesn’t know her anyway. ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153/42 "2014-04-05T01:31:13Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > And then he sat in a stadium Photoshopped with people and pretended to watch her graduation from college? > > And then the father held a fake doll and pretended it was his first grandchild? > > And then he took a puppet and went out back and threw a baseball to his future fake grandson? Stop giving theim ideas that they would find totally reasonable! ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153/43 "2014-04-05T03:25:32Z")
It’s odd, but will be a nice memory for the girl. I don’t see the correlation between this and future pressure for her to marry. She will do whatever the hell she wants to do when she is older, no kid has ever done otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153/44 "2014-04-05T03:49:42Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > It’s odd, but will be a nice memory for the girl. I don’t see the correlation between this and future pressure for her to marry. She will do whatever the hell she wants to do when she is older, no kid has ever done otherwise. Possibly it will be. Or maybe it will make marriage a reminder of her fathers death and be a very sad memory. ---
**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153/45 "2014-04-05T08:29:29Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > If it was the girl’s idea and/or she’s let it be known that her biggest dream is having a big wedding with her father by her side, then I don’t really have a problem with it. I can’t relate and it sure seems weird, but having your father die when you’re a kid is also weird, and in a much awful way. If this helps the both of them deal with it, then who am I to judge? > > But if this was the bright idea of the parents so that can have something to post on Facebook, then it’s in poor taste. I know not every 11-year-old girl is a tomboy like I was, but how many kids that age are really planning their wedding? Yeah I agree completely on all counts. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153/46 "2014-04-05T09:10:18Z")
If that little girl’s mom ever remarries, perhaps to a wonderful man who is the bestest stepdaddy thete could ever be, thim6s could get a little weird when she has a real wedding. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153/47 "2014-04-05T09:47:00Z")
I mean, if that little girl’s mom ever remarries, perhaps to a wonderful man who is the bestest stepdaddy there could ever be, things could get a little weird when she has a real wedding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-walking-down-the-aisle-at-eleven-thing-weird/685153.md?page=2)